FREEHOLD – A 25-year-old Avon man was charged Tuesday in connection with the October 2013 overdose death of a man who was staying at a Rumson-based transitional rehabilitation home.

Michael Renna is charged with one count of first-degree strict liability for a drug-induced death and one count of third-degree distribution of a controlled dangerous substance, according to the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office. The charges stem from the death of Christopher L. Pesce, 25, who was living at the Oxford House rehabilitation and transition home in Rumson, according to authorities.

At a meeting on Oct. 12, 2013, Renna provided Pesce with the doses of heroin that caused his death the next day, prosecutors said. Rumson police found the body of Pesce inside the Oxford House at 8:15 p.m. Oct. 13, 2013, according to the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office. Authorities said he died as a result of acute heroin toxicity.

Renna faces up to 20 years in state prison on the charge of strict liability for drug-induced deaths, and if convicted, would have to serve 85 percent of his time under the No Early Release Act.